Sports Tech Co. Sues Ex-Major Leaguer Over Failed App Deal

By Alex Lawson

A technology company has sued MLB Network host Harold Reynolds in New Jersey federal court, alleging that the former All-Star sabotaged their agreement to build a youth sports app and lured the company into sharing trade secrets with a competitor.

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Media Companies Seek $520K Fees In Severance Suit

By Emily Lever

A360 Media LLC and Bauer Media Group USA LLC are urging a New Jersey federal judge to award them more than $520,000 in attorney fees and costs after defeating a former executive's ERISA severance suit, arguing they prevailed over a bad-faith claim by the exec and he should be saddled with the legal fees to deter others.

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Sallie Mae Investor Sues Over Late Student Loan Payments

By Jessica Corso

Sallie Mae is facing a possible class action in New Jersey that accuses the company and its top executives of committing securities fraud by underselling an increase in student loan delinquencies.

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Airbus Sued Over Fatal Helicopter Crash In New Jersey

By Matthew Santoni

The families of a pilot and a news photographer killed in a helicopter crash while working for a Philadelphia television station have sued helicopter manufacturer Airbus, along with companies that maintained the helicopter and supplied the hydraulic system parts blamed for causing the crash two years ago in New Jersey.

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Becton Muscles Out Hernia Mesh Rivals, Antitrust Suit Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

Tela Bio Inc. slapped Becton Dickinson and Co. and its subsidiaries with an antitrust lawsuit Friday in Pennsylvania federal court accusing the medical tech giant of abusing its dominant position in the hernia mesh market to block Tela's product and keep Becton's "costlier and clinically inferior" mesh on hospital shelves in the U.S.

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Nearly 20 NJ Judges, County Prosecutor Get Senate Approval

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey Senate confirmed the acting Warren County Prosecutor for the full prosecutor's role as well as approving nearly 20 new Superior Court judges Monday. 

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DOI Pauses Work On East Coast Offshore Wind Projects

By George Woolston

Construction on five offshore wind projects along the Atlantic coast was paused Monday by the U.S. Department of Interior over national security concerns, according to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum.

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Mercedes Inks $150M Deal In Emissions Cheating Claims

By Brian Steele

Mercedes-Benz USA LLC and Mercedes-Benz Group AG have reached a nearly $150 million national settlement with state attorneys general amid allegations that they sold and leased vehicles equipped with devices capable of defeating emissions tests.

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DOJ, SEC Charge 6 In $41M Insider Trading Scheme

By Sarah Jarvis

Federal prosecutors in New Jersey have charged six people in connection with what the government is alleging are securities fraud schemes that led to at least $41 million in illicit profits from insider trading, as well as gains from manipulating the stock prices of biopharmaceutical companies.

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3rd Circ. Permits DOL To Back Honeywell In 401(k) Suit

By George Woolston

The U.S. Department of Labor can file a friend-of-court brief supporting Honeywell's position in a worker's fight to revive a proposed class action alleging the company violated federal benefits law, the Third Circuit said Monday.

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Supreme Court Halts Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Union Order

By Emily Brill

The U.S. Supreme Court stayed a Third Circuit order Monday that had required the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to bargain in good faith with its newsroom workers' union and rescind changes to their healthcare and working conditions, pressing pause on an order that ended a three-year strike at the paper.

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Ashley Stewart's Board Seeks To Nix Ch. 11 As Bogus

By Rick Archer

The battle for plus size fashion retailer Ashley Stewart is continuing in a Delaware bankruptcy court, with one director seeking to dismiss the case while others are calling for a court-appointed trustee to investigate the company's November asset sale.

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21 AGs Support Gun Ban For Cannabis Users

By Jonathan Capriel

A federal law that prohibits habitual drug users from possessing firearms is constitutional and necessary for public safety, a coalition of attorneys general from 20 states and Washington, D.C., told the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the justices to overturn a finding that the law violates the Second Amendment except when a user is actively intoxicated.

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NY's James, 21 Other Dem AGs Say CFPB Defunding Unlawful

By Craig Clough

New York Attorney General Letitia James led a coalition of nearly two dozen Democratic attorneys general in claiming the Trump administration's effort to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is illegal, telling an Oregon federal court Monday the municipalities are statutorily entitled to the CFPB's resources

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Analysis

4 Legal Ethics Matters That Rocked 2025

By Emily Sawicki

This year, judges across the country grappled with attorneys' use and misuse of generative artificial intelligence, and prominent federal prosecutor battles dominated headlines in some of the top legal ethics matters of 2025.

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Analysis

Top Gov't Contracts Cases Of 2025

By Madeline Lyskawa

The Federal Circuit and U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled on several consequential issues impacting government contractors this year, including deciding who constitutes an "interested party" capable of lodging a bid protest and invalidating a settlement between the Pentagon and one of its major contractors. Here, Law360 reviews the top government contracts-related rulings in 2025.

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Bonus Spotlight

Haynes Boone, Seward & Kissel Announce Year-End Bonuses

By Aebra Coe

Haynes Boone is handing its associates year-end and special bonuses in line with those offered by a significant portion of BigLaw this year, largely adhering to a bonus scale first put forward by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP in November, a firm spokesperson confirmed Monday.

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DOJ Challenges ABA's Standing In Law Firm Intimidation Suit

By Ryan Boysen

The Trump administration is not waging an intimidation campaign against U.S. law firms, the government said Friday, calling an American Bar Association lawsuit challenging its alleged "law firm intimidation policy" as total speculation that must be dismissed due to lack of standing.

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JPMorgan Rips Javice Attys' 'Absurd' Bills For Candy, Booze

By Dorothy Atkins

JPMorgan has unveiled new details in its ongoing legal fee fight with Charlie Javice, accusing the convicted financial aid startup founder's Quinn Emanuel defense counsel and other firms of billing for "absurd" and "outrageous" expenses, including specialty cocktails, cellulite butter, a Cookie Monster toy and $530 on gummy bears.

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Ex-CIA Director's Lawyers Accuse DOJ Of Judge Shopping

By Carolina Bolado

Former CIA Director John Brennan's attorneys asked the chief judge for the Southern District of Florida on Monday to block prosecutors from trying to steer any potential charges against him for investigating Russia's 2016 election interference to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon's courtroom.

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Analysis

2025 Was A Policy Year Like No Other For Immigration Attys

By Britain Eakin

This year brought nonstop immigration policy whiplash as the Trump administration ramped up enforcement, triggering panic among employers about I-9 compliance in a landscape of constantly shifting adjudication and work authorization policies. Here, Law360 looks at how policy shifted attorney practice in 2025.

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Calif. Atty Slams 'Protectionist' ABS Fee-Sharing Ban

By Emily Sawicki

A California attorney has pushed back on opposition from California's attorney general and the state's bar association amid his efforts to block enforcement of a ban on fee sharing with out-of-state law firms owned by nonattorneys, arguing the new state law is a "protectionist act, in defiance of the constitution."

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LawFirms.com Beats LegalForce's TM Suit After Bench Trial

By Ivan Moreno

A California judge has concluded that a company that operates LawFirms.com did not infringe a law firm's trademarks for LegalForce, saying that during a four-day bench trial in October the court found "no one was actually confused or misled."

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Schumer Pushes Senate To Sue Over Epstein File Release

By Courtney Bublé

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., introduced a resolution on Monday that would direct the Senate to take legal action to force the Trump administration to fully comply with the law to release the files of the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Analysis

As US Executions Decline, Florida Surges

By Brandon Lowrey

During Florida's 1994 gubernatorial race, Republican candidate Jeb Bush accused Democratic incumbent Lawton Chiles of being too soft on crime; Chiles' immediate predecessor, Bush pointed out, had signed almost 10 times as many death warrants as Chiles had.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's justices threw the Court of Chancery in reverse big time last week, rescinding a decision by the state's chancellor that last year effectively canceled tech tycoon Elon Musk's multi-year, then-$56 billion stock-based compensation package. It was a decision that lit up the court's relatively low-key, pre-holiday wind-up. It also highlighted the endless, 3D tug of war over Delaware-chartered companies and the interests of boards, officers, controllers, stockholders and the corporate bar.

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